Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Yet another thing smart feeders can do
Message-ID: <36450@looking.on.ca>
Date: 20 Oct 89 07:32:55 GMT
References: <35837@looking.on.ca> <784@philmtl.philips.ca>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

In article <784@philmtl.philips.ca> ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) writes:
>While implementing that feature, it would be unfortunate if the
>opportunity to include only approved _ideas_ and _opinions_ was not added as
>well.
>[Frankly, I can't express how disgusting I found that elitist proposal]

"Elitist?"  In a strange sense yes, in that a moderated group is
somewhat elitist.  But what I proposed, in the context of moderated
groups, was the opposite of elitist!  Under the current system, in a
moderated group, only one person can post.  All I suggested was a mechanism
to allow people to post in moderated groups without intervention from
the moderator.

I suggest a method of lessening a moderator's intervention, and it gets
called disgustingly elitist.  I suppose I should have suggested strengthening
it!  The reactions of usenet people always amaze me.

Yes, moderated groups are elitist of course.  But most people would say
that's what's good about 'em.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473